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All Views Articles for 2015-08-13

Thursday, August 13, 2015
	Christopher D. Cook Dignity, Democracy and Food: An Interview with Frances Moore Lappè Frances Moore Lappè’s iconic Diet for a Small Planet has helped awaken millions of people to the connections between our diets, our bodies, and the fate of the planet. Since its publication in 1971,... Read more
	Michael T. Klare Double-Dip Oil Rout: Why an Oil Glut May Lead to a New World of Energy The plunge of global oil prices began in June 2014, when benchmark Brent crude was selling at $114 per barrel. It hit bottom at $46 this January, a near-collapse widely viewed as a major but... Read more
	Jim Hightower Superrich Donors Turn Our Democracy Into Their Plutocracy Once upon a time in our Good Ol' US-of-A, presidential contenders and their political parties had to raise the funds needed to make the race. How quaint. But for the 2016 run, this quaint way of... Read more
	Jill Richardson Big Ag Spars with the First Amendment Animal abuse isn’t only a problem when people find out about it. Read more
	Tara Ritter Renewable Energy: Why Emissions and the Economy Don’t Tell the Whole Story Last week, President Obama announced the Clean Power Plan , the United States’ strongest climate policy to date. The plan aims to reduce coal-fired power plant emissions by allowing states to devise... Read more
	Chris Anders No Thanks, Obama and McCain. Continuing Indefinite Detention Isn’t Closing Guantánamo. A bad idea doesn’t somehow become a good idea just because five years have gone by. But the Obama White House and Sen. John McCain seem ready to recycle a proposal that was overwhelmingly rejected in... Read more
	Robert C. Koehler A Wedge for Nuclear Disarmament “Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith . . .” What if words like this actually meant something? This is Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation... Read more
	RoseAnn DeMoro Why the Nation’s Nurses are Supporting Bernie Sanders for President The more than 100,000 people who have jammed into arenas in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Madison, and other cities should be a wake up call for anyone still... Read more